NETGEAR 50-Port Gigabit Ethernet Fully Managed Switch (GSM7248) - with 4 x 1G SFP, Desktop/Rackmount, and ProSAFE Limited Lifetime Protection, M4100 Series

welcome to my unboxing of a pretty good value net cure switch this is from their pro series it is the m GS 72 40 - 300 na s and it is a 24 port gigabit smart switch with web-based management and so yeah if you're looking for basically if you need a smart switch okay with web-based management and you need a bunch of gigabit ports because most inexpensive switches are still using ten hundred ports for the bulk of them this is pretty much the one to get it's around the $200 mark and we're going to be using this for a really cool little project where we show you how with okay it's not cheap but for about a thousand bucks plus drives you can turn your home storage server into a four gigabit home storage server that is capable of streaming one gigabit per second so a gigabit network connection to multiple computers within your house all concurrently which means at the same time so on the fron